Serving Clinton
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Clinton, IA
Commercial air movers and low-grain refrigerant dehumidifiers pull moisture out of the structure, with daily moisture-meter readings logged for your insurer. Structural drying brings building materials back to a documented dry standard using air movers and dehumidifiers rather than surface evaporation alone. Moisture readings are logged through the process so the substrate, not just the surface, is confirmed dry before anything is rebuilt.
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Frequently asked questions
The dam is downstream. Why would it wet a house on the terrace?
Because the dam sets the pool elevation for miles. Lock and Dam 13 is not a distant floodwall; it is the water table under Lyons and the mill flats. When June rain adds to a pool that cannot drop, the extra has to go into fill and cellars rather than downriver.
Is a house on the bluff a different job from one on the flats?
Yes. The bluff fails from uphill seepage and downspouts that terminate at the lot line. The flats fail from a river the dam will not let fall. Treating both as 'river flooding' misses the cut-slope problem on one and the lock-pool problem on the other.
Lock and Dam 13 holds a pool. Can a mill cellar wet when the sky is clear?
It can. Filled mill channels still connect to the pool. A cellar on that terrace can wet from below because the industrial hydrology was never removed, only covered. The lock just keeps the supply steady, so the industrial hydrology is a fair-weather problem as much as a storm problem.